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Son of owners of a hotel chain, the young Helmut refuses to take over the family business and turns away from this professional heritage. He left for London where he did odd jobs and became a waiter to pay for his drama studies. After having distinguished himself in a few secondary roles in France and Italy, his career began in 1964. He landed a role in La Ronde by Roger Vadim then was spotted among a mass of extras by Luchino Visconti himself on the set of his movie, Sandra. According to other sources, Berger had met Visconti while he was a waiter in a hotel at a ski resort in Austria.

Still, this meeting will upset the future of Helmut Berger. Renowned for his beauty, he quickly became Luchino Visconti's lover and this relationship marked the start of a great career. After a small role in a film with sketches, Visconti offers him perspectives of another scale. He shapes him in his own image and detects in him a "demonic, mad and sexually perverted" side , qualities that he considers perfect for "embodying perversion" .

It was then that Berger made a series of major films, still under the direction of Visconti: disguised as Marlene Dietrich in The Damned in 1969, homosexual and "alienated" in Ludwig - The Twilight of the Gods in 1972, or even a young gigolo in Violence and Passion in 1974, Berger rose to prominence and gained notoriety. At the same time, he toured with other renowned directors such as Vittorio De Sica, in Le Jardin des Finzi Contini in 1970.

After Visconti's death in 1976, Helmut Berger went through a difficult period: devastated by the loss of the one he considered her "husband", as he later confided in his autobiography, the actor was experiencing addiction problems drugs and alcohol. In addition, very marked by the ambiguous roles he used to play, his film career stagnated and he found himself confined to playing characters sexually disturbed, or even drugged, by slipping into the skin of Dorian Gray, gigolos of all kinds (Une Anglaise Romantique by Joseph Losey in 1975, Dynasty in 1980, etc.) or by taking up, in Ludwig 1881 (1993), the role of Louis II of Bavaria who had blown it up in Ludwig - Twilight of the Gods in 1972.

A cinematographic personality borrowing from decadence, famous interpreter of sulphurous characters, Berger ends up being the victim of his image of a "perverse" actor, and is forced to illustrate himself in erotic films or in caricatures of what he interpreted already under the direction of Luchino Visconti. From the 1980s, Berger became more discreet in the cinema. He appeared briefly in The Godfather, Part 3 by Francis Ford Coppola in 1990, but was now mostly limited to small roles in television series. Recently he starred in two German films by director Peter Kern, namely Blutsfreundschaft in 2009 and Mörderschwestern in 2011.

Rewarded in 2007 by a Teddy Award for the whole of his career, he pays in his autobiography a final tribute to his lover, since he attributes the credit of his qualities of actor to the talents of direction of Luchino Visconti.

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Helmut Berger Net Worth 2021

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Helmut Berger Net Worth 2020

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Helmut Berger Net Worth 2019

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Helmut Berger Net Worth 2018

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Helmut Berger Net Worth 2017

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Helmut Berger Net Worth 2016

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